10th Tank Corps
10th Tank Corps | |
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Country | ![]() |
Branch | Red Army |
Type | Armor |
Engagements | World War II
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Decorations | Order of Suvorov 2nd class |
Battle honours | Dnieper |
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The 10th Tank Corps was a
First Formation
In May–June 1938, the 7th Mechanized Corps headquarters was relocated from Novy Petergof to Luga and converted into the 10th Tank Corps when the Red Army mechanized forces transitioned from a mechanized corps structure to a tank corps structure. On 4 August 1938, the 107th Separate Air Liaison Flight was formed as part of the corps at Luga. On 27 September 1939, the corps was relocated to the Pskov area on the Estonian border, to back up threats of force against that country. On 2 October it was moved to the Latvian border to threaten Latvia as well. Both of these movements were made to force the two Baltic states into signing the Soviet–Estonian Mutual Assistance Treaty and the Soviet–Latvian Mutual Assistance Treaty, respectively, which established Soviet military bases on the territory of both countries. On 10 October, the 18th Light Tank Brigade was transferred to another unit and replaced by the 1st Light Tank Brigade. The corps' other brigades were the 13th Light Tank Brigade and the 15th Motor Rifle and Machine Gun Brigade.[1]
On 13 October the corps was transferred back to the
The Red Army command considered the performance of the large tank corps to be unsatisfactory and ordered all of them, including the 10th, disbanded in January 1940 by an order dated 17 January. The corps headquarters was moved to Kingisepp to be used to form an army group under the command of Dmitry Pavlov.[1]
Second Formation
The corps was reformed in April 1942
10th Tank Corps was subsequently assigned to the 5th Guards Tank Army, but by April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin, the 10th Tank Corps was part of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command (RVGK).[3] It comprised the 178th, 183rd, and 186th Tank Brigades, and the 11th Motor Rifle Brigade.[4]
It should not be confused with 30th Tank Corps, which became
Postwar it became the
References
- ^ a b c Drig, Yevgeny (12 October 2013). "7 механизированный корпус с 1938 г. – 10 танковый корпус" [7th Mechanized Corps, from 1938 10th Tank Corps]. mechcorps.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 7 April 2014. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Dupuy Institute Forum Discussion on Tank/Mech Corps
- Combat composition of the Soviet Army.
- ^ Niehorster, Leo (1 January 2010). "Battle of Berlin: Soviet Order of Battle: 10th Tank Corps, 3 April 1945". niehorster.org. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Holm, Michael. "34th Tank Division". www.ww2.dk. Retrieved 2016-03-05.